Improvedent in sewing-miachine cases



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GUSTAV HEOKEL, OF BELLEVILLE, ILLINOIS.

Specification forming partof Letters Patent No. 126,956, dated May 21,1872.

Specification, describing a new and Improved Sewing-Machine Case,invented by GUSTAV HEOKEL, of Belleville, in the county of St. Clair andState of Illinois.

The invention consists in a sewing-machine case and table, constructedas hereinafter fully described and pointed out in the claims.

Figure 1 is a front elevation of the table and cover, with a part of thelatter broken out. Fig. 2 is transverse section of Fig. l on the line a::20. Fig. 3 is a plan view of the table and the extension formed by theopen case.

Fig. 4 is a section of Fig. 3 on the line y 3 Fig. 5 is a section ofpart of the permanent table and an adjusting-piece at the back, and Fig.6 is a plan of part of the under side of the permanent table and thesaid adjusting back piece.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts. Y

A is the permanent table; 13, the frame or base whereon it rests. O isthe vertically-adjustin g or shifting back piece, between which and therear edge of the part A the back side D of the cover is arranged in aslot, as clearly indicated in Figs. 2 and 4,being hinged to the uppercorner of A at E and beveled below the hinges at ,I ,,as A iscorrespondingly beveled at G, to allow of falling down backward, so thatits upper surface will come to the plane of the upper surface of A. Thepiece 0 is provided with a groove, H, on the under side, over the backpiece of the frame B, and it is also grooved at I, and it is providedwith vertical guide-bars K, extending downward between blocks L, fallingwhen the part D goes back low enough to allow the said back 1) to falllevel with the said part A, and to rise again when said part D rises,for being as high as said part A and preserving a symmetrical appearanceof the permanent table when the case is closed. It is raised at thistime by the rib M on the outside and lower edge of the back D. The endpieces N of the cover are hinged to the back piece D, one at each end,as clearly shown in Fig. 3, and 'i'old outward at the ends thereof, and,like the said back piece, are supported horizontally level with the partA by the back piece 0. The top is of flexible material, 0, of anysuitable kind, covered with ribs P, so as to bend over the oval tops ofthe end pieces, and it is permanently attached to the back piece D andthe front side Q, but not to the end pieces N, and the said front pieceQ is not attached to the ends. When the case is opened the front pieceand top hang down behind, as shown in Fig. 4.

The end and side pieces of the case may have panels of glass or anyother substance.

Havingthus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secureby Letters Patcut-- 1. The combination of table A and base B, havingvertically-adjustable piece 0, with the back 1) of ease, as and for thepurpose described.

2. The case eonsistingof hinged back D, end piece N, flexible top"() I,and front Q,

combined with table A and support B O, as

